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History book that reads like a thriller (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by ta9876543205@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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I am reading Dongri to Dubai by S. Hussain Zaidi.

Growing up in Mumbai in the 1980s/90s, I remember reading news stories about the Mumbai gang wars.

This book covers that in great detail and as such qualifies as a genuine history book.

And yet, it reads like a potboiler. It is essentially unputdownable.

10/10

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[–] EveryDayheyhey@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

And the band played on, people politics and the aids epidemic. It's a pretty big book but I breezed through it. It's very sad but also almost reads like a detective. A mysterious virus appears, people start dying but no one knows why, how does it spread? Covid hit about a year after I read this book and it really felt kind of the same. The book is also very very das though, but really worth a read.